USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Southern economy and social structure was in ruins. the Civil War (about 2% of America’s population at the time). they needed jobs and housing to support themselves and their families. In addition, many former slaves could not read or write.

Detailed explanation-2: -The most difficult task confronting many Southerners during Reconstruction was devising a new system of labor to replace the shattered world of slavery. The economic lives of planters, former slaves, and nonslaveholding whites, were transformed after the Civil War.

Detailed explanation-3: -One important issue was the right to vote, and the rights of black American men and former Confederate men to vote were hotly debated. In the latter half of the 1860s, Congress passed a series of acts designed to address the question of rights, as well as how the Southern states would be governed.

Detailed explanation-4: -After 1867, an increasing number of southern whites turned to violence in response to the revolutionary changes of Radical Reconstruction. The Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations targeted local Republican leaders, white and Black, and other African Americans who challenged white authority.